wrack and wruin

Dilapidation is only natural, not too natural      but natural, and so a little shaking and stumbling and      forgetting is natural, the world itself is shaking a bit      and eventually will be forgetting all of its Myths which C.G. Jung      and Joseph Campbell and Others got so hot about. Snake Goddesses.      Virgin Mary. And All That. So you can put it in perspective in      a phrase. Nevertheless the common cold plus all of the aches and sorrows      and sometimes fiercest pain and loneliness, the loss of one's false teeth, the      forgetting of names of people in the emotional family come along with the      Morality Figure Dilapidation and pinch a nerve, bruise and bruise and bruise a life      unto exhaustion, unto the Holy Ghost, unto the Need to say Good-bye Good-bye      Good-bye, please      put me to bed. "'Thou hast me on the wrack' in various styles" by John Tagliabue.